With Wimbledon just round the corner, an appeal has gone out to restore a building that harks back to the earliest days of lawn tennis.
Diminutive Bramcote Tennis Pavilion in Scarborough has been listed on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2024. The society says the Arts and Crafts veranda-style bungalow, which was built in 1885, just a decade after the sport was introduced to the All England Club in Wimbledon, needs urgent preservation.
'A lot of purpose-built sports buildings have already been lost through demolition or converted into something else. To have a purpose built tennis pavilion from that era is getting a little bit rare.' VS president Griff Rhys Jones said “How can we not find a proper new use for this elegant testament to the history of tennis? Like all good old buildings, it is an education in itself. It has a story. It teaches continuity. Local achievement. And fun history.
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